1980 Ancestry Codes Components
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INTRODUCTION
Ancestry refers to respondents' written entries on the census questionnaire. Some entries may appear to be indicative of race, country of origin, ethnicity, etc., but are not usable as such. Other entries (such as Eurasian) may be considered to be indicative of multiple entries, but are treated as single ancestry categories for census purposes. The ancestry categories are not edited to be consistent with other responses for a person, and usage for other than ancestry tabulations may yield inconsistent or erroneous results.
For census publications and summary tape files, the following priority rules were established for identifying a person as being of single ancestry, multiple ancestry, as having ancestry classified as not specified, or as having ancestry not reported.
Each person is assigned a 6-digit code. The first 3 digits comprise the first ancestry code and the last three digits the second ancestry code.
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A person is of single ancestry,
If the first code is 0 to 899, 903 to 905, or 908 to 919 and the second code is 900 to 902, 906, 907 or 937-999. The single ancestry is that specified in the first code.
If both the first and second codes are 0 to 899, 903 to 905, or 908 to 919 and the first and second codes are equal or are entries within a grouping defined as a common ancestry (see the end of this appendix), ever, the user may choose variations from the common ancestry groupings.
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A person is of multiple ancestry,
If the first code is 920 to 936. (Second code is irrelevant.)
If both the first code and second codes are 0 to 899, 903 to 905 or 908 to 919 and the first and second codes are not entries within a grouping defined as a common ancestry.
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A person is classified as having ancestry not specified, if the first code is 900 to 902, 906, 907, or 937 to 998. (Second code is irrelevant.)
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A person is classified as not reported, if the first code is 999. (Second code is irrelevant.)
Tabulations of ancestry may necessitate the counting of an individual more than once. For example, in a particular tabulation the category of persons of "English ancestry" could include those persons of mixed ancestry with English identified as one of the multiple origins as well as those who specify English as their only ancestry. Persons of multiple ancestry may also be tabulated for each of the other ancestry groups depending on the tally specifications. Following is a list of the ancestry categories and codes:
001-099 (Western Europe - except Spain) |
500-599 (Subsaharan Africa) |
920-936 (Unique Three-Origin Multiple Ancestry Categories) |
100-199 (Eastern Europe and Russia) |
600-699 (South Asia) |
937-999 (Residual Categories and No Response) |
200-299 (Spanish Categories) |
700-799 (Other Asia) |
1-911 (Code Ranges for Common Ancestries) |
300-399 (Caribbean, Central and South America - except Spanish Categories) |
800-899 (Pacific) |
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400-499 (North Africa and Southwest Asia) |
900-919 (North American - except Spanish Categories) |
001-099: Western Europe - except Spain | |
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Code | Ancestry |
001 | Austrian |
002 | Tirolean |
003 | Andorran |
004 | Basque |
005 | Belgian |
006 | Flemish (Flamand, Vlamand) |
007 | Walloon |
008 | Cypriot |
009 | Greek-Cypriote |
010 | Turk-Cypriote |
011 | Icelander |
012 | Danish |
013 | Faeroe Islander |
014 | Dutch (Hollander, Netherlander) |
015 | Frisian |
016 | English (Anglican) |
017 | Channel Islander, Guernsey Islander, Jersey Islander |
018 | Cornish |
019 | Welsh |
020 | Scottish (Orkney Islander, Pict, Shetland) |
021 | Manx |
022 | Northern Irelend (Ulsterite, Orangeman, Antrim, Armagh, Down, Fermanagh, Derry, Londonderry, Tyrone) |
024 | Finnish |
025 | Livonian |
026 | Karelian |
027 | Aland Islander |
028 | French (French Creole, Gascon, Provencal, Norman) |
029 | Breton |
030 | Corsican |
031 | French Basque |
032 | German (East German, West German, Pennsylvania Dutch, Pennsylvania German) |
033 | Bavarian |
034 | Berlin |
035 | Black Sea German (Volga) |
036 | Hamburg |
037 | Hannover |
038 | Hessian |
039 | Lubecker |
040 | Lusatian Sorb (Wendish) |
041 | Prussian |
042 | Saxon |
043 | Westphalian |
044 | Sudetenlander |
045 | Gibraltan |
046 | Greek |
047 | Cretan |
048 | Cycladic Islander, (Dodecanese Islander, Peloponnesian) |
050 | Irish (Celtic, Dubliner, Eire, Clare, Cork, Donegal, Galway, Kerry, Kildare, Kilkenny, Laoighis, Leitrim, Limerick, Longford, Louth, Mayo, Meath, Monaghan, Offaly, Roscommon, Sligo, Tipperary, Waterford, Westmeath, Wexford, Wicklow) |
052 | Italian (San Marino, Trieste) |
053 | Abruzzi |
054 | Apulian |
055 | Basilicata (Lucania) |
056 | Calabrian |
057 | Campanian (Amalfian) |
058 | Emilia-Romagna |
059 | Friulian |
060 | Rome (Vatican City, Lazio) |
061 | Ligurian |
062 | Lombardian |
063 | Marches |
064 | Molise |
065 | Piedmontese |
066 | Puglia |
067 | Sardinian |
068 | Sicilian |
069 | Tuscan |
070 | Trentino |
071 | Umbrian |
072 | Valle D'Aosta |
073 | Venetian |
074 | Liechtensteiner |
075 | Luxemburger |
076 | Maltese (Gozo) |
077 | Monegasque (Monacan) |
078 | Norwegian (Jan Meyer Islander, Spitsbergen Sualband Islander) |
079 | Portuguese (Lusitanian) |
080 | Azorean |
081 | Madeiran |
082 | Swedish |
083 | Swiss |
084 | Schweiz, Suisse, Switzer |
085 | Ladin, Romansch |
086 | Ticino |
087 | Suisse-Romane |
088 | Lapp ( Samelat) |
089 | Scandinavian (Nordic) |
090 | Alsatian |
091 | Lorrainian |
092 | European |
093 | Western European |
094 | Northern European |
095 | Southern European |
096 | British Isles |
097 | British (United Kingdom) |
098 | Acadian (Cajun) |
100-199: Eastern Europe and Russia | |
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Code | Ancestry |
100 | Albanian (Greg, Tosc) |
102 | Bulgarian (Eastern Rumelian) |
103 | Macedonian |
104 | Czechoslovakian (Czech) |
105 | Bohemian (Moravian) |
106 | Slovak |
111 | Estonian |
113 | Hungarian |
114 | Magyar |
117 | Latvian (Lettish) |
120 | Lithuanian (Jmoud) |
122 | Polish (Masurian) |
123 | Pomeranian (Silesian) |
124 | Kashubian |
125 | Rumanian |
126 | Bessarabian (Bucovina, Dobruja) |
127 | Moldavian |
128 | Transylvanian |
129 | Vlach (Wallachian) |
131 | Yugoslavian (not elsewhere classified) |
133 | Croatian (Dalmatian, Zadar) |
136 | Serbian (Bosnian, Herzegovinian, Montenegrin) |
137 | Slovene |
140 | Russian |
141 | Muscovite |
142 | Crimean (Kuril Islander, Sakhalin Islander, Siberian, Buriat, Dagestan, Balkar, Komi, Mari, Tuva) |
143 | Abjerbaijani |
144 | Bashkir |
145 | Chevash |
146 | Yakut |
147 | Cossack (Kazak) |
148 | Kirghiz |
149 | Mordovian |
150 | Ossetian |
151 | Tadzhik (Tajik) |
152 | Tartar |
153 | Turcoman (Turkman) |
154 | Udmurt |
155 | Usbeg (Uzbek) |
156 | Votyak |
159 | Armenian |
161 | Georgian |
163 | Ruthenian (Little Russian, Malo-Russian) |
164 | Carpathian (Carpatho) |
166 | Ukrainian |
168 | Belorussian (White Russian) |
170 | Slav (Slavic) |
172 | Gypsy (Rom, Boyash, Cali, Dom, Kalderdash, Luri, Nat Senti) |
173 | Eastern European |
174 | Central European |
200-299: Spanish Categories | |
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Code | Ancestry |
200 | Spaniard (Espanol, Castilian, Iberian, Valencian) |
201 | Balearic Islander (Canarian, Majorcan, Mallorcan) |
202 | Spanish Basque (Vasco, Euskalduna) |
203 | Catalonian |
204 | Galician (Gallego) |
205 | Spanish |
206 | Spanish American |
207 | Hispanic (Hispano) |
208 | Californio |
209 | Mexican (Mexicano) |
210 | Mexican-American |
211 | Nuevo Mexicano (Tejano, Aquascalientes, Baja California, Campeche, Chiapas, Colima, Durango, Hidalgo, Jalisco, La Raza, Michoacan, Morelos, Nahuatl, Oaxaca, Puebla, Quere taro, San Luis Potosi, Sinaloa, Sonora, Tabasco, Tamaulipas, Tlaxcala, Veracruz, Yucatan, Zacatecas) |
212 | Chicano |
213 | Puerto Rican (Boricua) |
214 | Cuban (Guajiro) |
215 | Dominican |
216 | Argentinean |
217 | Bolivian |
218 | Chilean |
219 | Colombian |
221 | Costa Rican |
223 | Ecuadorian (Galapagos Islander) |
225 | Guatemalan |
227 | Honduran |
229 | Nicaraguan |
231 | Panamanian (Canal Zone) |
233 | Paraguayan |
235 | Peruvian |
237 | Salvadoran |
239 | Uruguayan |
241 | Venezuelan |
242 | Central American (Latin American, Latino) |
243 | South American (Criollo) |
300-399: Caribbean, Central and South America - except Spanish Categories | |
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Code | Ancestry |
300 | Bahamian |
304 | Cayman Islander |
306 | Haitian |
308 | Jamaican |
310 | Dutch West Indies (Black Dutch, Netherlands Antilles) |
311 | Aruba Islander (Bonaire Islander, Curacao Islander) |
312 | Saba Islander (St. Eustatius Islander, St. Maarten Islander (Dutch) |
314 | Trinidadian/Tobagonian |
315 | Trinidadian |
316 | Tobagonian |
320 | U.S. Virgin Islander (Islanders: St. Croix, St. John, St. Thomas, Cruzan) |
321 | British Virgin Islander (Barbudan, Tortolan) |
322 | Caribbean |
323 | British West Indian |
324 | Turks & Caicos Islander |
325 | Anguilla Islander (Islanders: Montserrat, Nevis, Redonda, St. Kitts, Sombrero) |
326 | St. Christopher Islander (St. Vincent Islander) |
327 | Dominica Islander |
328 | Grenada Islander |
329 | St. Lucia Islander |
330 | French West Indies |
331 | Guadeloupe Islander (Martinique Islander, St. Martin Islander [French]) |
332 | Cayenne (French Guianese) |
333 | West Indian |
334 | Arawak (Black Carib, Carib, Garifuna) |
335 | Belizean (British Honduran) |
336 | Brazilian |
337 | San Andres |
338 | Guyanese (British Guiana) |
339 | Providencia |
340 | Surinam (Dutch Guiana) |
341 | Barbadian |
400-499: North Africa and Southwest Asia | |
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Code | Ancestry |
400 | Algerian |
402 | Egyptian (Copht, Fellah, United Arab Republic) |
404 | Libyan (Tripolitanian) |
406 | Moroccan (Tangier) |
407 | Ifni |
408 | Tunisian |
409 | Moor |
410 | Berber |
411 | North African |
412 | Alhucemas (Ceuta, Melilla, Chafarinas) |
413 | Rio de Oro (Saguia el Hamra) |
414 | Bahraini |
415 | Iranian (Tehran, Persian) |
417 | Iraqi |
419 | Israeli |
421 | Jordanian (Hashemite) |
423 | Kuwaiti |
425 | Lebanese (Beirut) |
427 | Saudi Arabian |
429 | Syrian (Druse) |
430 | Aramean |
431 | Jebel Druse |
432 | Latakian |
434 | Turkish (Gordian, Hatay, Asia Minor) |
435 | Yemeni (Yemen Arab Republic) |
436 | Muscat |
437 | Omani |
438 | Trucial Ornan |
439 | Qatar |
440 | Aden |
441 | Kuria Muria Islander |
442 | Bedouin |
443 | Kurd |
444 | Palestinian |
445 | Trans-Jordan |
446 | Gazan |
447 | West Bank |
448 | People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (South Yemen) |
449 | Arabian |
450 | Middle Eastern |
451 | United Arab Emirates (Trucial States, Abud Dhabi, Ajman, Dubai, Fujairah, Ras al Kaimah, Umm al Qaiwain) |
452 | Assyrian (Chaldean, Jacobite, Nestorian) |
500 | Angolan (Cabinda) |
502 | Benin (Dahoman, Fon) |
504 | Baswana (Bechuanaland) |
506 | Burundian (Urundi) |
508 | Cameroonian (Fako) |
510 | Cape Verdean (Brava) |
512 | Central African Republic (Ubangi, Shari) |
513 | Chadian |
515 | Congolese |
516 | Congo-Brazzaville |
519 | Djibouti (jibuti, Afars, Issas) |
520 | Equatorial Guinea (Rio Muni) |
521 | Annobon Islander (Islanders: Bioko, Corsico, Elobeis, Fernando Po) |
522 | Ethiopian (Abyssinian) |
523 | Eritrean |
525 | Gabonese |
527 | Gambian |
529 | Ghanian (Ashanti, Gold Coast, Twi) |
530 | Guinean |
531 | Guinea Bissau |
532 | Ivory Coast |
534 | Kenyan |
538 | Lesotho (Basuto) |
541 | Liberian |
543 | Madagascan |
546 | Malian |
547 | Mauritanian |
549 | Mozambican |
550 | Namibian |
500-599: Subsaharan Africa | |
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Code | Ancestry |
551 | Niger |
553 | Nigerian |
554 | Fulani (Fulah) |
555 | Hausa |
556 | Ibo |
557 | Tiv (Yoruba) |
559 | Rhodesian (Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe-Rhodesian) |
561 | Rwandan |
564 | Senegalese (Dakar) |
566 | Sierra Leonean |
568 | Somalian |
569 | Swaziland |
570 | South African (Republic of South Africa) |
571 | Orange Free State (Pretoria, Transkei, Union of South Africa) |
572 | Afrikander (Boer) |
573 | Natalian |
574 | Zulu |
576 | Sudanese |
577 | Dinka |
578 | Nuer |
579 | Darfur (Fur) |
580 | Baggara |
584 | Tanzanian |
585 | Tanganyikan |
586 | Zanzibari |
588 | Togo |
590 | Ugandan (Lugbara) |
591 | Upper Voltan |
592 | Volta |
593 | Zairian (Belgian Congo, Kinshasa) |
594 | Zambian |
595 | African (Afro) |
596 | Central African (Middle Congo) |
597 | Eastern African (Galla, Kikuyu, Masai) |
598 | Western African |
599 | Comoros Islander (Islanders: Mauritius, Principe, Reunion, Sao Tome, Seychelles, St. Helena, St. Pierre, Tristan da Cunha) |
600-699: South Asia | |
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Code | Ancestry |
600 | Afghan |
601 | Baluchi |
602 | Pathan |
605 | Bengali (E. Pakistan) |
607 | Bhutanese |
609 | Nepali |
613 | Asian Indian (India, E. Indian, Bharati, Behar, Delhi, Dravidian, Indo-Aryan, Madhya Pradesh, Orissa, Rajasthani, Sikkim, Utlar Pradesh) |
614 | Punjabi |
615 | Andhra Pradesh |
616 | Assamese |
617 | Gujarati |
618 | Karnatakan |
619 | Keralan |
620 | Maharashtran |
621 | Naga |
622 | Tamilian |
623 | Madrasi |
624 | Goanese |
625 | Mizoram (Mysore) |
627 | Pondicherry |
628 | Andaman Islander (Nicobar Islander) |
630 | Pakistani (Sind, Jammu, Kashmirian, W. Pakistan) |
633 | Ceylonese (Sri Lankan) |
634 | Singhalese |
635 | Veddah |
637 | Maldivian |
700-799: Other Asia | |
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Code | Ancestry |
700 | Burmese (Chin, Cachin, Karen, Mon, Palaung) |
701 | Burman |
702 | Shan |
703 | Cambodian (Kampuchea) |
704 | Khmer |
706 | Chinese (Jehol, Uigur, Yao) |
707 | Cantonese (Formosan) |
708 | Manchurian |
709 | Mongolian (Kalmuck) |
710 | Tibetan |
711 | Hong Kong |
712 | Macao (Portuguese Macao) |
714 | Filipino (Philipino, Cebuanos, Illocanos, Tagalog) |
717 | Indonesian (Islanders: Ascension, Celebes, Sulawesi, Molucca, Spice; Java, Sumatran, Bangka, Billiton, Brunei, Borneo, Dutch East Indian, Portuguese Timor) |
719 | Japanese (Issei, Nipponese, Nisei, Sansei, Yonsei) |
720 | Ryukyu Islander |
721 | Okinawan |
723 | Korean (Chosen, North Korean, South Korean) |
725 | Laotian |
726 | Hmong |
727 | Meo |
729 | Malaysian (Sabah, Sakai, Sarawak, Semang, Senoi) |
740 | Singaporean |
742 | Thai (Siamese) |
743 | Thai Dan (Black Thai) |
744 | Western Lao |
747 | Taiwanese |
748 | Vietnamese (Annamese, North Vietnamese, South Vietnamese) |
749 | Chom (Montagnard) |
750 | Katu |
751 | Ma |
752 | Mnong |
753 | Indo-Chinese |
754 | Eurasian (Indo-European) |
755 | Asian (Orienta1) |
756 | Eastern Archipelago (Riau Islander) |
800-899: Pacific | |
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Code | Ancestry |
800 | Australian (New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Victoria) |
801 | Tasmanian |
803 | Fijian |
805 | New Zealander |
806 | Maori |
808 | New Guinean |
809 | Papuan |
810 | American Samoan |
811 | Tokelau Islander |
812 | Tongan |
813 | Hawaiian |
814 | Part-Hawaiian |
815 | Guamanian |
816 | Chamorro Islander |
817 | Marshall Islander |
818 | Caroline Islander |
819 | Midway Islander |
820 | Wake Islander |
821 | Saipan Islander |
822 | Northern Marianas Islander |
823 | U.S. Trust Territories of thePacific |
824 | Truk Islander |
825 | Yap Islander |
826 | Solomon Islander |
827 | Norfolk Islander |
828 | Cook Islander |
829 | Christmas Islander |
830 | Campbell Islander |
831 | Kermadec Islander |
832 | Phoenix Islande r |
833 | New Caledonia Islander |
834 | New Hebrides Islander |
835 | Melanesia Islander |
836 | Micronesia Islander |
837 | Polynesia Islander |
838 | Pacific Islander (Oceana) |
839 | Samoan |
840 | French Polynesia (Society Islander, Tahitian) |
841 | French Samoa |
842 | Palauan |
843 | Ulithian (Faisian) |
844 | Woleaian (Ifalukese, Eauripikese) |
845 | Pulawatese (Tamatamian) |
846 | Mortlockese |
847 | Ponapean |
848 | Pingelapese |
849 | Mokilese |
850 | Kosraean |
851 | Ngatikese |
852 | Nukuoroan |
853 | Kapingamarangan |
854 | Gilbertese |
855 | Nauruan |
856 | Niuean |
857 | Hall Islander |
858 | Namanouito (Ulul) |
859 | Lamotrekese (Satawalese) |
900-919: North American - except Spanish Categories (Revised July 1983) | |
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Code | Ancestry |
901 | American |
902 | United States |
903 | Afro-American (Bilalian, Black, Colored, Creole, Mulatto, Negro, Nigritian, Nonwhite) |
906 | White/Caucasian (Anglo, Anglo-Saxon, Appachian, Aryan, Hillbilly, Swamp Yankee, WASP, White) |
908 | Green Islander |
909 | Canadian (Albertan, British Columbian, Labradorean, Manitoban, New Brunswick, Ontarian, Prince Edward Islander, Saskatchewan, Yukoner) |
910 | Newfoundland |
911 | Nova Scotian |
912 | French Canadian (Quebec) |
913 | Bermudan |
915 | North American |
916 | American Indian (American Indian Tribes) |
917 | Aleut |
918 | Eskimo |
920-936: Unique Three-Origin Multiple Ancestry Categories | |
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Code | Ancestry |
920 | American Indian-English-French |
921 | American Indian-English-German |
922 | American Indian-English-Irish |
923 | American Indian-German-Irish |
924 | Dutch-French-Irish |
925 | Dutch-German-Irish |
926 | Dutch-Scotch (or Scottish) |
927 | English-French-German |
928 | English-French-Irish |
929 | English-German-Irish |
930 | English-German-Swedish |
931 | English-Scotch (or Scottish) |
932 | English-Scotch (or Scottish)-Welsh |
933 | French-German-Irish |
934 | German-Italian |
935 | German-Scotch (or Scottish) |
936 | German-Swedish |
937-999: Residual Categories and No Response | |
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Code | Ancestry |
995 | Not Classified |
996 | Mixed (Biracial, Human Being) |
998 | All Other Entries (Catholic, Jewish, Mennonite, Muslim, Protestant and other religious entries, plus all other responses not on the code list) |
999 | None, Blank, No Response |
1-911: Code Ranges for Common Ancestry | |
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Code | Ancestry |
001-002 | Austrian |
005-007 | Belgian |
008-010 | Cypriot |
014-015 | Dutch |
016-018, 096-097 |
English |
024-027 | Finnish |
028-31, 098 |
French |
032-044 | German |
046-48 | Greek |
052-73 | Italian |
079-081 | Portuguese |
083-87 | Swiss |
090-091 | Alsatian |
102-103 | Bulgarian |
104-105 | Czechoslovakian |
113-114 | Hungarian |
122-124 | Polish |
125-129 | Rumanian |
140-156 | Russian (Specified categories)1 |
163-164 | Ruthenian |
200-204 | Spaniard |
205-208 | Spanish |
209-212 | Mexican |
310-312 | Dutch West Indies |
314-316 | Trinidadian/Tobaganian |
327-328 | Dominica Islander |
330-332 | French West Indies |
406-407 | Moroccan |
429-432 | Syrian |
450-451 | Middle Eastern |
515-516 | Congolese |
520-521 | Equatorial Guinea |
522-523 | Ethiopian |
553-557 | Nigerian |
570-574 | South African |
576-580 | Sudanese |
584-586 | Tanzanian |
591-592 | Upper Voltan |
600-602, 613-625 |
Afghan |
627-628 | Asian Indian |
633-635 | Ceylonese |
700-702 | Burmese |
703-704 | Cambodian |
706-712 | Chinese |
719-720 | Japanese |
725-727 | Laotian |
742-744 | Thai |
748-752 | Vietnamese |
800-801 | Australian |
805-806 | New Zealander |
808-809 | New Guinean |
901-902 | American |
909-911 | Canadian |
ENDNOTES
- Excludes Armenian, Georgian, Ruthenian, Ukrainian, and Belorussian.